Course Textbook
August, R., Mayer,
D., & Bixby, M. (2013). International business law: Text, cases, and
readings(6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
Unit III Course Project:
Phase 1
You will be developing a course project that will begin in Unit
III and finish in Unit VII. The course project will be done in three phases.
This project is a practical memo
on a company interested in expanding into another country. The memo focuses on
the international business law and practices for the international expansion of
your chosen company.
The CEO of your selected company has requested that you assist
with developing overseas-expansion plans for the firm. Your role is to complete
a comprehensive memo responding to the CEO’s request. Specifically,this course project will be completed in memo form,
and it will include your research and a framework that the firm should consider
in its expansion efforts. The framework should include guidelines and identify
key issues that affect or may potentially affect the company and its various
departments.
There are different elements of the project that you will build
in the three phases. You should investigate the kinds of issues that a firm is
likely to face in an environment of international business laws and the types
of transactions that are commonplace for firms.
As part of your research, you may
find other relevant issues that may affect your business, which are not covered
in the lessons. In particular, note
any pending regulations, laws, or relevant issues that may be evolving. The
framework that you include should be practical, relevant, and presented in a
user-friendly manner.
The audience for your memo is the
board of directors of the firm. In addition to the memo itself, you must
develop a communication plan on how you would propose informing and engaging
the employees of the firm. The final project should contain a separate
reference page of sources used in the project.
Use APA style when citing references used in your guidelines.
You
must develop a template for the course project. This should be in the form of a table of
contents that forms part of the deliverables. In addition, begin to develop a
reference page of key resources and sources that you will use in the remaining
two sections of the course project. These sources and resources should be
primarily from the CSU Online Library and online sources for corporate
webpages.
For Phase 1, select a company and
a country that you plan to export/expand into, and develop a brief company
profile for the firm as well as a brief overview of the country. Complete a
company profile for the firm, a corporate profile (facts on the company), and a
brief overview of the selected country. This assignment must be three to four
pages in length, not counting the table of contents, the title page, and the
references.
Due on 28 July 2017 @ 4:00 PM EST
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Unit V Course Project:
Phase 2
As you recall, we are working on a course project. The final
deliverable of the course project is a detailed memo that you will prepare,
outlining the opportunities and constraints of establishing operations in
another country from a legal perspective. There are three parts to the project.
For this assignment, you are
looking at Phase 2 of the deliverable. This phase includes the development and
submission of a working draft of the memo that was started in Unit III. The
memo must be three to four pages, thorough, and it must be well cited with
current references to support key points.
As a firm considers expanding into another country, there are
many things that must be resolved. It is useful to consider the five Ws and
H: who, what, where, when, why, and how:
·
Why
are we considering this expansion, and does it fit with our strategy and
operations?
·
What are the tasks we will be doing in this
country?
·
Where
will we locate in the country?
·
Who should we involve in the planning of our
move and the execution of this initiative?
·
When do we want these steps to be completed?
·
How
do we proceed? What are the steps?
Of course, we must also outline
the legal framework of the country we are looking to move goods into, including
an assessment of how the World Trade Organization views the country from a
tradeperspective, what types of
regional trade agreements may be in place, and the dispute resolution options
open to us.
Due on 4 August 2017 @ 4:00 PM EST
Unit VI Essay
Describe
the role and function of the International Labor Organization (ILO)
Administrative Tribunal. Use the CSU Online Library and other sources to
research articles concerning this organization. What makes this organization so
important to employees and their organizations?
This
paper should be two to three pages in length and include examples of the role
of the Tribunal.
All
sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and
quoted material must have accompanying citations in proper APA style.
Due on 14 August 2017 @ 4:00 PM EST
Unit VII Course Project
Phase 3
As
you recall, we are working on a course project. The final deliverable of the
course project is a detailed memo that you will prepare, outlining the
opportunities and constraints of establishing operations in another country
from a legal perspective. There are three parts to the project.
This is Phase 3 of the
assignment. Include two – to three-recent articles and/or cases that
you can locate in the CSU Online Library or on the Internet, concerning opening
and operating a business within a foreign country. These types of recent
articles and/or cases are important in supporting your project.
A
useful website is the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
(UNCITRAL),
http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/electronic_commerce.html,
which has a library and research resource database for you to utilize.
Articles
that will be pertinent to your project could include information from or about
the following:
·
United Nations Commission on International Trade,
·
U.S. International Trade Administration,
·
International Organization for Standardization,
·
foreign corrupt practices,
·
international business etiquette and manners,
·
United States International Trade Commission,
·
World Trade Organization,
·
International Labor Organization,
·
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International
Sale of Goods, and
·
World Intellectual Property Organization.
Write
a two- to three-page summarization of the articles. All sources used, including
the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have
accompanying citations in proper APA style.
Due
on 21 August 2017 @ 4:00 PM EST
Please
submit all three phases for the final course project that you started
developing in Unit III and Unit V. As you complete your final phase, be sure to
incorporate the instructor feedback from the Phase 1 and Phase 2 assignment
submissions. Be sure to include your title and reference pages along with your
table of contents.
